I'm juggling so many books at the moment, trying to pick ones that are completely different so that I can dip into each for a couple of chapters at a time and feel like I've only just started reading. Re-reading Schumacher's Small is Beautiful last night, I remembered how much I loved some of the chapter openers - I love the confidence he had in putting forward his opinion, even when it was one that contradicted so much economic thought at the time, and still now.
'The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.'
Anyone that can consider industry and imagination in the same breath is alright by me. Good book.
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